“The Last of Us” is a game I never thought I’d play. So what happened exactly? Well, a couple of weeks ago, I was driving through town in my giant, yellow van while listening to The Goo on my stereo. You can literally get seasick in my van because I have a 350 gallon water tank bolted to the frame and the constant sloshing can make you a little green around the gills. Having something to focus on is key in this situation. You see, I own my own business and in my industry you will find yourself driving almost constantly to different appointments all day (I maintain aquariums). All the driving can get monotonous but thankfully, I have The Goo to help keep me sane (and sober) while traversing my 75 mile radius of cleaning up fish poop. [Read more…]

Can you remember your most treasured memory of playing a video game? I will tell you mine. It was on a warm summer day in 1991. My siblings and I were visiting with our grandmother for the weekend. One thing that almost always came hand in hand with visiting grandma was her marvelous habit of buying us a new game. In this case it was a Sega Genesis game called “Toejam and Earl.” A classic [Read more…]

It was a HOT summer day. And a hot summer in Florida, is lava hot with a steam bath in between. I was in my friends garage. I can’t remember what year it was but for whatever reason, his parents made him keep his Nintendo in the damn blazing garage with one of those old 70’s TV’s with the clicky knobs on them. Why is it that we always got the hand me down TV’s for our Nintendo’s? [Read more…]

I really don’t know what to make of this. I’m not a first person shooter guy for the most part so I guess my opinions on this genre are tainted from the start, and it’s hard to discern exactly what drew me to this experience. The graphics? The story? The Sci-Fi Elements? The Tropics? The Physics? [Read more…]

Having some spare time can be a good thing now and then. And despite the usual amount of chores that need to be accomplished on a daily basis in life, something inside my inner sanctum compelled me to dive into the original “Legend of Zelda” head first. [Read more…]

A decade has passed since the last time Metroid crossed my fingers. My fingers cramped and bled, just like they should. Being played on my new, custom monstrosity of a gaming device (which is fabulous) it was hard not to get caught up in the beauty of this primordial masterpiece.

January 2010 was a pretty good month for gamers, looking back on it. The PS3 had MAG; the Wii had No More Heroes 2 and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom; Darksiders and Bayonetta were big multi-platform hits; and then there was a little regarded 360 title called Mass Effect 2…

And lost in the rumble and jumble of those amazing titles was a Capcom game called Dark Void [PC, PS3, 360].[Read more…]

“If Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as something different? And why cannot we move in Time as we move about in the other dimensions of Space?”